Book review: R&R

Book review: R&R [∞]

The book is a gift from the author. Both are not mentioned here, since I do not have permission. This is intended as a casual review not a debate. It is sharing a different viewpoint than perhaps what the author has observed. Shorthand 7.1 refers to page 7, par graph 1.

7.1

1. Two views explained: the unconverted or the Christian struggle.
   1. Augustine was a Nicolaitan (conqueror of the laity). He taught the Balaamism that scripture is merely literal-historical unless you absolutely had to see it as allegorical. This hermeneutic puts the reason of man at the center of the hermeneutic.

7.2

1. Good insight.

7.3

1. This option is more manipulative in that the Christian is seen as a failure who needs Ecclesiastical support. ===8.3===
2. There is a missing 4th option. Which might be considered as Augustine 2.0. When was Paul without the law? As a child.

When he became of age, he understood the law and he died. Why is there a struggle? Because Christians lump all sin together and don't recognize the two part sin that is the systemic teaching of the OT.

1. 1. Adam and Eve sinned differently. Eve by instinct; Adam by choice.
   2. The law defined trespass and sin differently.
   3. There was knowing/rebellious sin, and instinctive/unwitting trespass.
2. The interpretive error is magnified by the hubris of the teacher who claims that WE are the sheep and THEY are the goats. The pattern is; like the women of the OT, that we are both the prostitute and the virgin as the bride of Christ. We sometimes tell Jesus what we have done for him and he tells us to depart. And sometimes he comes to us and tells us what we did which we were unaware.